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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo Buscaglia

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
Ian Hamilton Finlay

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
Conrad Veidt

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
Lisa Loeb

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
Shannon Miller

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
Derek Jacobi


Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Ed Smith

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
Morris Dees

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
Paul Rand

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
Gavin DeGraw

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
Pat Boone

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
Johnny Bench

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tavis Smiley

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
Eli Khamarov

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.
Frank Oz

The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.
Robert Luskin

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